CONSOLATION. Hast thou forgotten God who gives the rain? Plentecus and showers pour On parching fields where drouth were sore; will thine eyes watch night again? Yeace on the shadowed hills and sky is deep: Shall not thine with sleep earth is comforted and lulled pain? Sefore thy prayer brazen still, Nor yet to cool thy thirst the tain fill. Nevertheless His word shall not be in vain, what hope had terroon? What hope fort merciful the long dust and Yet out the heart be comforted As of the heavens are foun- earth, gasping at yes- hast thou, whose com- shall be goon? not in His he bane? Tomor Are nds for bliss or ye row, where the upland fle black, shalt go come back; Harvest shall again forth and look on follow dtime where heart 'om ering rrow, thy of love before } spring; shall repay Fountains shall Peace pain. thou ' thee sevenfold for Hast forgot! God wao gives the rain? he Atlantic. AT TRE PONTIERS. RY ROLAND WHITTLE. anne ft just hall rain >ific ave ireiy took long enough was pouring nue ' men shoul tiemen Henry G 1 States iman nN i on : ago,” should month self “I what ently have to do, but now AS matter think that really now.” The and the Lenten ¥ subse f She f the and a lamael art quent Twentieth aun, separated her social acti any or Ash Wednesday tain rumors as to the gallant captain had her by sympathtie bu disingenuous hinted in mys was frequently of a certain known burlesque company when all bed PL i ede into pre-Raphas period, = Century, ymph, half and dislikes n., by the LI likes her vities, eve compani sterionus geen Dennis hs good rimors would ficiently disquieting in Lent they were to the captain's was a glorious Gant: alier, and gtances might hav “He Is “and what a the Carnival finer Romeo, naughty, too.” Hereupon a pensive mela caused by her recollection of ths son overcame her, and aha thoughtfully at the littie gold crucifix which depended from her and which she took out regularly every Ash Wednesday. There was a roman. tic ifttle story attaching to the same erneifix, but that belongs to another chapter, and one not pertaining to the spocial lessons appointed to in Lent, “I wonder why I promised to see him again? I am half afraid to talk to him,” she wmurmurad: “bnt be under go handson aplendid There and —- 1 ” & ' he is so delicious sea. nds 51 CHAIN, looked so splendid yesterday that I could not deny his request to eall But Carton is just as handsome. He reads the service so impressively and he always seems so much above me Why, I never dreamed of anything of in his look when 1 stayed to ask his advice about fasting yesterday afternoon. “I know that well, and- don't know, I'm sure, which I want. Sometimes [ think captain and sometimes Car: look too of them is the ton. “Just think of the good I could do I have led a very I have never thought Just think how I " life. poor. The Lenten mood was on her strongly enough. The idea Mil ired paddling about damp slums and ting up for early communion as a general would have cau hilar her lends, of aad fr rule akahle iid not { feulous hard i among “How clergymen There much were marry. would ought to deny ught to de B would her that it the cleryman, for um {iments WAS lant captain never en Ore i imne It visitor the enter and that took a minute and half for prepare room, and in Mildred Arro fe tiny was heing vd mn the parted and walked slowly to to minute it es portier the ‘arton Wiltor d another ring and the vant enters annonce Gilman.” looked up, frowned, hesi moment, and then sail firmly decigively, * Not at home. "New American IN THE 816 HOTELS. “Captain Mildred tated a and York WOMEN Hundreds of Them. big hotel of today Is a remun field n workers, the hundreds of them. It largely depends upon them for ultimate success, it thousands of dollars weekly one thing alone it conspicuously fers from the big hotel of yesterday. The women employes of the spa. cleus hostelry of a decade ago were all mere servants. In its monster eounterpart of the hour they are graded all the way up from cleaners to college graduated clerks, whose abiimiog to direct the satisfying wants of the occupants of entire floors en. able them &n earn comfortable sal The for wom gervice of Formerly two dozen chambormaids, half as many cleaners and three or four linen room girls, with a none too well educated housekeeper over them constituted an especially large corps of female help. As the most typical example of the up to date hotel this force would be just large enough to take care of two of the fourteen floors There seven housekepers, each select ed for her acknowledged Intelligent executive ability, who employ, dis charge and direct the tasks of fifteen parlor malds, ninety chambermalds fifty cleaners, twenty seamastresses Each honsekeeper has charge of two floors and all of them report to the Large those represent women regularly floor clerks and ty-three. Four checks of the as are scarcely figures, they more than half the employed The $ numbe- thir controllers audit the The laundry cashier waiters ty-five, glass pa seven the The by twelve, itoreroom enographs a woman All she and dire what QUICK THINKERS. How Tricky Plays Help Cut in Tight Places, Many ; reached the rn that w had that picked himself Cross w ko exelt the plate dust and grinning all “Why did Manager Mack have made it.” “Did vou sponded the “Yog “1 was responsible for it “Why?” asked Mack “1 pinched his lez ia arm send it home phia Inquires. A Nautical Piano. A sea captain belonging to Sunder land had made such an exceptionally that wife felt en couraged to ask him to purchase a plano with which to beautify their house and exssperate their neighbors He told her was going to London and whi would look at some instruments, with a view to buying This is his deacription of the one he thought would suit her: “Black walnut hull, strong bulkheads iron frame, lined with white wood and saple riggings, steel wire double on the ratlines, and whipped wire on the tower stays and heavier cordage; be laying pins of steel, and well driven | home: length of taffrail over all 6 feet 1 Inch: breadth of beam, 388 | inches: depth of hold, 14 inches; | hatches can be battened down proof | against ten-year-old boys and tenton i | been forge 1 ement attends up from came to the players’ bench over his face u slide, "Lo ou asked “You could ave’? never aon that wild throw?” re smiling captain as he raised "wuPhiladel just to good vovage his he le there gpankers, or can be clewed up on occasion, and sheeted home for a firet class instrumental cyclone," TLRs Latest News of Pennsylvania Told in | Short Order. THE KEYSTONE STATE | next three or Department y out over inary de buil he Says four months will be cal $7,000,000 mand 15 madi Of new ( h the pubic sd y by the ding appropriations « other Iib Legis ne apitol and many ns made the i by the 1903. To meet rtment it 1 ON YOu amined unt! engineer, card he xamination sho yw ed that ler. a boy of Pottsville t apon one of the mountains ire search of huckleberries on Friday since which time no trace of him has Under the pretense that he was an electrician sent to make repairs, a thie shjained entrance to the residence 0 Herman Astrich, at Harrisburg, anc from an upstairs room stole diamond rings and studs, a gold watch and sey sral chains, Thomas Dillon and J. W. Tyson wer repairing’ timber in the Bear Valley shaft, Shamokin, when a plank or which they stood broke. Dillon fel’ forty feet and. landing on the cage, was saved from being dashed to death on the bottom of the shaft. Tyson grab bed hold of a projecting timber and Citas aa NEN. IN LAND OF “EVANGELINK" peals to Every Visitor. The ‘Teche country.” How one hears the country of sout Louisiana spoken of and so few re: have seen the beauties of it, and it lies in a most convenient locality with several important little citi and many magnificent plantations or its banks. Then again, Longfelloy immortalized the apclent river in “Evangeline,” There is a certaln sons thing, say, dreaminess, which hold of one, and enthralled by the haze of the sunshine and mist you look upon the commonplace as sunshine At Bt. Martinsville the ing “Evangeline oak” 18 near thie bridge, and one can almost see the cove into which the skiff was draw; as Gabriel passed up the stream, wandering in search of the the thick undergrowth of palms vines obscuring the gaze passer-by. The town itself have changed but little, a more or The spoken in shops and brick pavements, shaded are built out the always spoken of as hite chapel with two brick oven of the greatly have for a somewhere through stopped ' iis take; widespread eact other, an from geems 1 settlement less. French Narrov creole market to curb, “bang its Eraves, two romantic the impression stepped out of and cannot electric cars or im those lover to that time realize are agine das} streets to allow some scurry destrian Here the bayou flows peacefu to edge the dust to some roomy, wide pla on to the sugar house, ing chimneys, she Then cal loaves, like add to the chars The mammoth ? their drooping rows orama moss watersg « palms stamp the ped hesitate down Th fast eretle, from the to name south e thriving ng prominence quite a lumber jon. 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